[SimonJazzSax]

I found this new channel on YouTube that has some fantastic play-a-longs. I was impressed with the swing stuff because it sounded really nice and actually was swingin' !!! I have also been messing with my recording equipment trying to learn how to use it so I made a recording with one of the youtube tracks. I got permission from the channel owner and I'm going to link his info below as well.

https://soundcloud.com/simonjazzsax%2Fthere-is-no-greater-love
the channel is ACME Play-A-Longs ... all sorts of styles. He said he has a lot of new stuff he's going to be uploading over the next 2 weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjakWpXTgfT9h9zZfpAMuGw

 

[Lionelsax]

Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you like to share now.
I like this standard.
Do you use this mouthpiece or another ?

 

[SimonJazzSax]

Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you like to share now.
I like this standard.
Do you use this mouthpiece or another ?

Oh snap! That gig. I had fun there. Band was killer. That's my old quintet. I miss playing with those guys.

I use a different mouthpiece now and a different horn. That setup on that video is a Ted Klum 5 with my TM Custom tenor. The horn in the recording above is a Balanced Action with an Otto Link FL USA STM 8.

Both are good. Just different.

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[Michael_A]

I was impressed with the swing stuff because it sounded really nice and actually was swingin' !!!

And musical "talk" of your sax just accelerates this swing. Very NICE, Simon!

 

[pontius]

Nice playing. Captivating!

 

[SimonJazzSax]

And musical "talk" of your sax just accelerates this swing. Very NICE, Simon!

Thanks! Its really hard to find good play-a-longs honestly.

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[SimonJazzSax]

Nice playing. Captivating!

Thanks for listening

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[Brendan]

What a great performance ... might as well go through them all ! Make it a tune a day .. :mrgreen:

Wile E. Coyote ..... super-genius !! :bluewink:

 

[SimonJazzSax]

What a great performance ... might as well go through them all ! Make it a tune a day .. :mrgreen:

Wile E. Coyote ..... super-genius !! :bluewink:

Haha! More will be coming up for sure. It's a fun project to work on while we can't interact with others musically and is really stretching my audio engineer chops (or complete lack there of). I actually just remixed it some and reposted on sound cloud about 2 seconds ago on this one. Raised the backing track a little and changed the reverbs and eq some.

Thanks for listening though. I appreciate it. I'm gonna head over to the TOTM and listen to your take soon! I'm excited that there are some more posts.

 

[J-Moen]

Dunno how I missed this! I've been trying to listen to everything I can! Awesome playing Simon - Keep it coming, very inspiring! This is such a great song and you really keep the vibe all throughout.

My wife has recently been called back to the office as part of a promotion. Very small number of people there, and, of course, lots of precautions. But the best part is the extra time for playing - thanks for sharing such a good resource!